Republican Carl Paladino had a narrow path to victory over Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the governor’s race, but the campaign imploded after a series of self-inflicted blunders such as forwarding offensive e-mails to friends and accusing Cuomo of marital infidelity, ...

December 1, 2010Comments Off on Cuomo chides Legislature for punting on deficit

Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said New York’s Legislature “failed to perform” when New Yorkers needed it because lawmakers chose not to address a $315 million deficit in this week’s special session. “Can you do it next year? Yes,” Cuomo ...

If Carl Paladino was mad as hell before, the Tea Party Republican who pledged to “take a baseball bat” to Albany must be fuming after losing his bid for governor to Andrew Cuomo by 27.5 percent. As projected, the governor-elect ...

Two in five New York voters consider themselves political moderates, and they voted overwhelmingly Democratic in the top statewide races Tuesday, propelling Andrew Cuomo, Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer to easy victories. According to an Associated Press analysis of exit ...

The long, often nasty campaign to pick New York’s next governor in a time of fiscal and ethical crises ends Tuesday as Democrat Andrew Cuomo seeks the office his father once held and tea party Republican Carl Paladino hopes to ...

Democrat Andrew Cuomo Sunday dismissed polls showing him with a wide lead in the governor’s race, warning of an uncertain political environment for Democrats going into the midterm elections. Cuomo’s Republican rival, Carl Paladino, told supporters that corruption among state ...

October 29, 2010Comments Off on Hahn: Local GOP shows its thirst for tea

Long Island’s Tea Party has gone from an independent conservative movement to a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP faster than the Religious Right abandoned the poor and people in need when they were co-opted by Republicans in the ‘80s. ...

Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino says he would lay off thousands of public workers to fix New York’s fiscal crisis. Paladino tells WGDJ-AM in Albany that Democratic Gov. David Paterson is right to order the layoffs of nearly 900 ...

Riding high in statewide polls, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo campaigned Wednesday with former President Bill Clinton and vowed to use Clinton’s two terms in office as a model for how to govern. Republican Carl Paladino signed a pledge supporting ...